Install & Configure Centreon Network Monitoring in Debian

January 19, 2008 · Filed Under Centreon 

Centreon, previously Oreon-Project is network, system and application monitoring system modelled on the best ever opensource monitoring solution, Nagios. Centreon provides a new frontend and new functionnalities to Nagios.

It allows you to be more efficient in your network monitoring, but also allows you to make your supervision information readable by a largest range of users. Indeed, a non technical user can now use the Centreon/Nagios couple to easily understand your network infrastructure thanks to charts and graphical representations of the gathered information. Skilled users still have access to specific and technical information collected  by Nagios though.

For a detailed list of features offered by Centreon, click here

The process of Installation of Centreon includes installation of the pre-requisites then Nagios and finally the Centreon binaries and configure.

The following is a four step procedure to install Centreon:

1. Install Centreon Pre-Requisites

2. Install Nagios & Nagios Plugin

3. Install Centreon binaries

4. Configure Setup Parameters & Database

The platform for this samplpe installation is

Operating System: Debian 4.0 R2

Webserver: Apache 2.2.3

PHP: PHP5.2.0

MySQL: MySQl Server 5.0

Nagios: Nagios 2.10

Nagios Plugin: Nagios-Plugin 1.4.11

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3 Responses to “Install & Configure Centreon Network Monitoring in Debian”

  1. justanote on March 10th, 2008 8:00 am

    An overall excellent guide, one question remains to me:
    Why did you put the nmap tag and did you make us download it ? I firstly thought it was to initiate us to the network discovery or something like that, did I missed something ?
    Regards.

  2. henk on August 5th, 2008 2:47 pm

    Click where? >:/

  3. henk on August 5th, 2008 2:48 pm

    Aha, right there…

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